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Working Papers

2025

1. Attitudes to Gender Inequality in South Africa: Evidence from Implicit and Explicit Attitudes
   Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics

2024

2. Beliefs and preferences as predictors of prophylactic adherence and lockdown compliance in South Africa
   Post-Print, HAL
   See also Journal Article Beliefs and preferences as predictors of prophylactic adherence and lockdown compliance in South Africa, Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals (2024) (2024)
3. Donations and tax incentives: Evidence from South Africa
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2014

4. Subjective Life Expectancy
   Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (10)

2013

5. The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle
   Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer (2015) View citations (12) (2015)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Beliefs and preferences as predictors of prophylactic adherence and lockdown compliance in South Africa
   Development Southern Africa, 2024, 41, (1), 91-109
   See also Working Paper Beliefs and preferences as predictors of prophylactic adherence and lockdown compliance in South Africa, Post-Print (2024) (2024)
2. Trust in government, social media and willingness to vaccinate
   Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 360, (C)

2023

3. Inequality, Outreach, and Impact in Public Goods Contributions
   Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59, (2), 279-298
4. Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in South Africa
   ERSA Working Paper Series, 2023
5. Procrastination and grades: Can students be nudged towards better outcomes?
   International Review of Economics Education, 2023, 42, (C) View citations (1)
6. The role of incentive structure in eliciting willingness to donate
   Economics Letters, 2023, 224, (C) View citations (2)

2022

7. Grit, motivation and university grades
   South African Journal of Economics, 2022, 90, (1), 21-36
8. Race, gender and willingness to compete
   Economics Letters, 2022, 213, (C) View citations (1)

2021

9. Does the timing of assessment matter? Circadian mismatch and reflective processing in university students
   International Review of Economics Education, 2021, 38, (C)
10. Group identity in fairness decisions: Discrimination or inequality aversion?
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2021, 93, (C) View citations (1)
11. Online and face‐to‐face learning: Evidence from students’ performance during the Covid‐19 pandemic
    African Development Review, 2021, 33, (S1), S114-S125 View citations (4)

2020

12. Choosing the agent's group identity in a trust game with delegated decision making
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2020, 22, (1), 220-244

2019

13. Race and gender biases in student evaluations of teachers
    Economics Letters, 2019, 179, (C), 66-71 View citations (1)

2015

14. The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2015, 50, (2), 97-115 View citations (12)
    Also in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2015, 50, (2), 117-117 (2015) View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle, Working Papers (2013) View citations (4) (2013)

Chapters

2020

1. Women Empowerment and Child Obesity: Evidence in Comoros, Malawi, and Mozambique
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

2018

2. Group Identity in Intermediated Interactions: Lessons from a Trust Game with Delegation in South Africa
   A chapter in Experimental Economics and Culture, 2018, vol. 20, pp 227-264 View citations (1)